Date: Wed, 4 Oct 95 08:43 PDT From: pete@puffin.pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up Message-ID: <m0t0Vyr-0000ReC@puffin.pelican.com> In-Reply-To: <199510040838.EAA09332@acmex.gatech.edu>
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In article <199510040838.EAA09332@acmex.gatech.edu> you write: >> I have noticed a problem with 2.1.0-950928 freebsd snap locking up and >> someone told me that this was reported a few times. After investigating ... >> My solution was to disable the green screen saver... am wondering if >> there are any revelancy between the two? ... >we just had this problem on my friend's machine, which we just >installed 2.1.0-950928 on today. But he was typing at the time so >there's no way the screen saver was coming on, and he is using >snake instead of green. At the time it locked, he had just >changed vttys(he had 7 going at the time). I've seen the console lock up in several different circumstances, one with 950726 when you move a ps2 mouse too fast (this is whether or not the mouse is actually in use) (I think this one is a known problem) and twice now in a nearly-2.0.5R (sup'd from current just before the real release) when switching virtual consoles. Both of these were with syscons and the default number of consoles gen'd. I've seen lockups before on switching away from X; I think the problem there is that you hit another key before the screen mode+data restore is done; with X that takes a while so it is more likely to happen. I had to reboot an ISP's main server yesterday because of this one :-( -- Pete
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